TD Jazz Youth Summit @ Ottawa Int’l Jazz Festival – Call for Applications
TD Jazz Youth Summit
For the 6th consecutive year, the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival is pleased to invite young jazz musicians between the ages of 17 and 22 to participate in a jazz intensive workshop during the 2010 Festival from June 24 to July 4. The results from the week long summit will be showcased during a special Canada Day presentation on July 1, and again on July 4 on the Festival’s Main Stage in Confederation Park. All eligible young jazz musicians may apply for this exciting musical adventure by March 30th, 2010.
Jim Lewis, the director of this intensive summit, is a renowned jazz professor at Humber College and the University of Toronto. He will select 15 – 20 young musicians from across Canada to participate in this event, consisting of daily 4-hour work sessions, visits from Festival headliners, and other workshop guests.
All Summit participants will receive:
- all access pass to all concerts during the 11-day TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival
- all travel and accommodation expenses for out of town participants (Summit participants are responsible for their own food and beverages)
- a guided tour of Ottawa provided by the National Capital Commission
- eligibility to be selected for a $2,000 scholarship donated by the Festival, and a $1,000 scholarship donated by Harvey Glatt through Rogers
Applications must be received by March 30th, 2010.
Contact Catherine O’Grady at 613.241.2633 or 1-888-226-4495 for detailed information.
Ottawa International Jazz Festival presents Rory Magill Rake-star project
Community Programming
October 27, 2009
Rake-star meets Gamelan
Semara Winangun
Featuring:
Rory Magill – percussion, trombone
Linsey Wellman – alto & soprano sax, flute, bass clarinet
David Broscoe – baritone & alto sax, clarinet
Rob Frayne – tenor sax, bass clarinet, synthesizer
Eldritch Priest – guitar
Mike Essoudry – percussion, clarinet
Gamelan Semara Winangun is:
Jamie Gullikson, Alnoor Allidina, Rob Bitschofsky, Widya Gunawan, Rachel Handley, Bill Lamont, Mark Molnar, Kristy Nease, Dan Powell, Lori Snyder, Sarah Thrasher, Linsey Wellman, Yukie Whittleton.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage 7:00pm
Ottawa Jazz Festival Fall and Winter Concerts
Download the flyer containing information about the Ottawa Jazz Festival’s Fall and Winter Concerts. (About a 1MB JPEG image file)
Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009: Days 4-6, June 28-30, 2009
John Kelman | All About Jazz, Philadelphia, PA
As the festival moves into its second quarter, one of its busiest most exciting days was coming up on June 29, with more “can’t miss” shows in one day than anywhere else during the festival. And with two lunchtime “Jazz Matters” panels at the National Arts Centre Fourth Stage kicking off on the same day—featuring journalists and authors including Mark Miller, Ashley Kahn, Ron Sweetman, Jesse Stewart and others—moderated by Ottawa’s own James Hale, there’s the opportunity to sit in on roundtable discussions about modern jazz piano and the seminal year of 1959, when artists including Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus contributed breakthrough works or performances that would change the shape of jazz forever.
Read more of this in-depth coverage and reviews on the All About Jazz website: Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009
